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Street bonuses and use the revenue in the short term to lower payroll taxes to generate growth, cut small-business taxes to create jobs and give hard-time rebates to seniors and military families of active-duty troops.
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He'll have a hard-time in the south, but would be perfect in 2016 when I will intend support him.
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To maintain the moral fiber of our country, it is imperative that these thieves are treated as all other thieves and sentenced to real hard-time prisons and ordered to return the booty.www. cartoons-political.com
Wall Street Mobsters 2009
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For those of you who are still having a hard-time digesting the idea of Barack being mentored by Bentonville, would you consider a joint venture with Wal-Mart, instead of an outsourcing or consulting contract?
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GARY NURENBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, police in several jurisdictions now looking for 45-year-old Kelvin Poke, who was confined to Jessup State Penitentiary in Maryland, the prison that is used for real hard-time offenders, in a life-plus-40-year sentence on a carjacking, kidnapping and robbery charge in 2005.
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Still, a "maverick" who sells himself as a warrior against special interest lobbyists will have a hard-time explaining why then they're running his campaign and Senate office.
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CNN's Campbell Brown's convict daddy had to do hard-time in the slammer for being a crooked politician!
"Levi Johnston, the kid who knocked up Bristol Palin and will now be forced to marry her, will attend the RNC tonight." Ann Althouse 2008
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Their tunes, very much in keeping with current interests, veer between hard-time songs like "Poor Boy Workin 'Blues" and gospel.
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Because people have a hard-time accepting information that conflicts with their personal construct and understanding of the world.
Archive 2007-05-01 The Urban Scientist 2007
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Because people have a hard-time accepting information that conflicts with their personal construct and understanding of the world.
Science, Education & Society: Helping people overcome their aversion to science The Urban Scientist 2007
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